"A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession."

"Whenever ideas fail, men invent words."

"Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature."

"In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science."

"I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something."

"If you feel your school is failing you, the question is why. Is it a lack of parental involvement, large classes, school violence, poor learning environment? Are there any standards to determine where problems are? Are there tutoring or mentoring programs? If the school is still failing after 3 years then what are your options?"

"My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures."

"State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes."